Green Schools for Health: A District’s Roadmap to the LEED Health Process in Green Schools

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A school can be an environmentally sustainable place that protects and promotes the health and well-being of everyone who interacts with it, including students, staff, and people from surrounding communities. Many school districts and some states have green building policies for modernization projects that may be leveraged to promote co-benefits including population health, social equity, and sustainability. The LEED® Health Process, broken down in this Roadmap, offers a framework for school facilities and design teams to integrate health promotion into school modernization projects and incorporate health more explicitly into green building practice.

This is the latest resource from the GHP (with support from the Center for Green Schools) and is the first in a series of guidance documents providing support for project teams applying the LEED Health Process.